TECUMSEH, Neb. —  A northeast Nebraska man who was accused of multiple murders and convicted of one has died in prison. 86-year-old Jim Forsberg was pronounced dead Thursday morning at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

The former farmer from rural Coleridge began his sentence on Jan. 17, 1995, after being convicted of killing 74-year-old Ellen Gray of Coleridge. Forsberg was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for second degree murder after running down Gray in his pickup on Broadway in downtown Coleridge on Jan. 20, 1994.

Forsberg had previously been accused of the murder of his adult daughter, Barbara Forsberg Corey, in 1987. After a three-month trial, he was acquitted of all charges related to her death. He was represented in the 1987 trial by eventual U.S. Senatorial candidate David Domina, also from Cedar County.

While the cause of death has yet to be determined, Forsberg was being treated for a medical condition. As is the case whenever an inmate dies in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, a grand jury will conduct an investigation.

Forsberg had been eligible for parole in January of last year, and his hearing process had begun a year prior, but he remained housed in Tecumseh through the end of his life.